Android Object Relational Mapping Databases

Rajesh K android

IntroductionObject-Relational Mapping (ORM) is a technique that lets you query and manipulate data from a database using an object-oriented paradigm. When talking about ORM, most people are referring to a library that implements the Object-Relational Mapping technique,

greenDAO

greenDAO is an open source Android ORM making development for SQLite databases fun again. It relieves developers from dealing with low-level database requirements while saving development time. SQLite is an awesome embedded relational database. Still, writing SQL and parsing query results are quite tedious and time-consuming tasks. greenDAO frees you from these by mapping Java objects to database tables (called ORM, “object/relational mapping”). This way you can store, update, delete, and query for Java objects using a simple object oriented API. The advantages are

Small library size (<100KB) to keep your build times low and to avoid the 65k method limit

SugarORM

SugarORM is an ORM built only for Android. It comes with an API which is both simple to learn and simple to remember. It creates necessary tables itself, gives you a simple methods of creating one-to-one and one-to-many relationships, and also simplifies CRUD by using only 3 functions, save(), delete() and find() (or findById()).

Realm

Realm Mobile Database is an alternative to SQLite and Core Data. Thanks to its zero-copy design, Realm Mobile Database is much faster than an ORM, and often faster than raw SQLite. Get started in minutes, not hours. The Realm Mobile Platform is a next-generation data layer for applications. Realm is reactive, concurrent, and lightweight, allowing you to work with live, native objects.